Has James Thriffiley, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $597 in general payments to James Thriffiley, MD across 11 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean James Thriffiley, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about James Thriffiley, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

James Thriffiley, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Gulfport, MSNPI 1689673071

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Stryker accounts for 66.8% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $399 and has fallen 78.6% since, to $85 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in MS, where the typical reported total is $3,357.

$597in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 11 payments — averaging $54.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$399
Fidia Pharma USA Inc.$48
Bioventus LLC$48
DJO, LLC$46
Johnson & Johnson$37
Vertex$19

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$31453%
Food & beverage$28347%

General payments by program year

Who reported the general payments

Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.

Company	Payments	Total
Stryker	3	$399
Fidia Pharma USA Inc.	2	$48
Bioventus LLC	3	$48
DJO, LLC	1	$46
Johnson & Johnson	1	$37
Vertex	1	$19

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

MAKO$314

How this compares

$597 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 170 orthopaedic surgery providers in Mississippi.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$105,410

Medicare patients

231

Services billed

1,309

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Celecoxib	268	$4,628
Diclofenac Sodium	51	$1,381
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	60	$600
Meloxicam	162	$472
Methylprednisolone	29	$187
Ondansetron Hcl	28	$125
Cephalexin	12	$71
Tramadol Hcl	27	$50

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Gulfport

Joseph CoxGulfport$84K
Philip MyersGulfport$43K
Eric GrahamGulfport$15K
Inez KelleherGulfport$13K
Matthew GravesJackson$1.2M
George van OstenTupelo$322K
Edward HobgoodJackson$267K
Hanna MitiasNew Albany$249K
Stephen SouthworthTupelo$160K
Jamey BurrowJackson$130K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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